It’s a JRPG but with a more action RPG system. You should expect the standard JRPG story for the most part. It’s a good game but I preferred the earlier games in the series (available on Steam) where it was top down and more like hyperspeed Zelda combat.
Er, it launched at $60 everywhere else too. This has nothing to do with being on Switch.
The bigger issue is that the Switch port apparently has all the same problems the other versions have had with localization. Like the other versions, the Switch version should be avoided until we get confirmation that it’s been fixed.
The full-body rumble of Lumines on Switch is pretty hilarious, if you have 2+ extra joycons to stick in your pants. Not kidding.
Haven’t picked it up yet, but sure I will at some point. That’s a “feature” that goes back to the original release of Rez, also created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, on PS2, which had an accessory called a (now I’m not kidding) trance vibrator.
I heard about this game the other day and I about exploded. Portable lumines again!!!
Question, does it work with the trance vibrator?
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Picked this up, because a $15 case will not do when I can get a $50 one. And this is slumming for a WaterField case.
What I want is something like this, a portable way of doing hdmi with the switch. But as far as I can tell, there isn’t one out there that doesn’t risk bricking. Unless i’ve missed one?
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Yeah from what I’ve read (but no direct experience) there’s no safe HDMI adapter.
Diego
Timex
3998
Why on earth would an HDMI adapter brick the switch?
I’m not doubting that it does, I’m just questioning what kind of fucked up engineering would possibly result in that?
Something to do with converting video output to hdmi, non standard support of a usb 3 standard in nintendo’s dock, or some such.
Doesn’t affect power supplies 3rd parties like Anker gear. So something in the handshaking when these peripherals tell the Switch it’s docked. Dunno.
magnet
4000
The HDMI adapter also provides power (in fact, HDMI is disabled when the Switch is on battery). And Nintendo uses a non compliant USBC spec that may cause third party equipment to provide too much power and lead to bricking.
I take it you mean when hdmi is active, so that the system is fooled somehow into thinking it is docked when it isn’t, and therefore trying to draw excess power?
Just curious, since I use a 3rd party usb cable all the time without issue.
magnet
4002
My understanding is that when a Switch outputs HDMI, it will sometimes request too much power. The OEM dock ignores it. Third party docks might comply.
No reason in theory Nintendo couldn’t make their own small HDMI adapter. I’m sure it’d be overpriced, but I’d grab one in a heartbeat. Even if it required/included a split cable to also plug it into power, it’d just be nice to be able to throw essentially one cable into my bag if I wanted to plug the Switch into a TV somewhere else instead of the bulky dock.
Timex
4004
Ya, so they basically just fucked the engineering on it. Gotcha.
It definitely wasn’t $60 on Vita. For anyone unsure if they’ll like an Ys game you can probably find a cheap copy of Ys 7 or Oath of Felgana on PC to see if you like them before paying the full retail on 8.
Oh yeah, NIS America screwed up the game’s release so hard on every platform that I completely forgot it even got a release on a platform I own three of.
One would think that there is a waiting market for a super portable dock that, you know, caps the power sent to the switch no matter what stupid bs is going on from the OS.
But I don’t see it yet.
I guess the other option is that Nintendo updates the OS to be less stupid, so you could do it as long as you’re damn sure you’ve upgraded to 5.x OS.
Lumines on the Switch is amazing. That rumble!
MattN
4009
It is indeed awesome, I just wish the rumble wasn’t so damn loud.
Sure, but the reason the portable docks out their are cheap is because they were using off the shelf USB-C components. Actually reverse engineering and getting a custom asic will take time and cost more.
